May 8th marks one year of blogging for me here on mathmisery.com
First, I want to give a gigantic “Thank You” to everyone who has read, retweeted, forwarded, commented, recommended, and guest blogged here.
With that said, here are a few directed “Thank You”s, in no particular order, to those who read my endless blathering:
- Earl Samuelson: Thank you, good sir for reading and retweeting every post! I am truly grateful for our dialogues, your support, and your readership! If only we could teach together!
- Josh Gauthier: Josh, you’re awesome! It was great speaking with your class a few months ago, we should do this again! Thank you! I like reading what you write — you should write more often!
- Samantha Bates: A recent addition to my Twitter network, you are, but what great conversations! Most recently about suffeces. Eek. No wait, we’ve had better ones and our word games are great! Thank you!
- Michelle Lampinen: Thanks for encouraging me to start blogging and to join Twitter!
- Ryan Horne: Thank you for the shout-outs on #LivEdChat!!
- Brandon Dorman: Until a few days ago I didn’t know you visited regularly! Thank you for your kind words and for your readership!
- Bill Wood: Your guest posts were great!! I owe you a closed-form analysis of a dice game … it’s coming, it was a bit more unwieldy than I thought, plus I blame Samantha Bates for distracting me on Twitter.
- Andy Novocin: Thank you for the readership, the guest posts, and the commentary! Much appreciated!
- Kory Graham: New Jerseyan transplanted to Minnesota, but I’ll forgive you, because you wear capes and read my inanities! 🙂
- Taylor Belcher: I love it when other people’s writing gets me to write! Thank you!
- Caleb Lee: We’ve had some great conversations about education research! I look forward to more of those!
- Terry Johanson: Thank you for the numerous shout-outs, retweets, and for you readership!
- Stephen Cavadino: We don’t get to talk much because we’re on opposite sides of the Atlantic, but when we do chat, it’s great! I enjoy reading your blog!
- Dave Gale: See Stephen Cavadino. Haha.
- Brandy Hemsley: I am flattered that my integration series (still going on, to resume next week) has helped! Thank you for telling me that, I really appreciated it and glad to know it provides some service!
From my “11 Things” post, check out these folks as well!
- Bill Martin’s Tech Seeds
- Justin Aion’s Re-Learning To Teach
- Kimberly Hurd’s Seeds For Learning
- Barry Saide’s Blog on ASCD
- Dawn Casey-Rowe’s Café Casey
- Shelby Aaberg’s Mathleticism
- James Slocum’s Blog
- Mike Thayer’s Hyperbolic Guitars
I’m also thankful for mathblogging.org for tweeting my blog posts!
Top \(N\) List
Must have a top \(N\) list in a one-year summarization post!
Here are the five most read articles of the year:
- A Mathematician Walks Into A Bar
- Sex, Elevators, And Correlation
- A Possibly Better Way To Evaluate Students
- So You Want To Teach Mathematics (.pdf)
- Dreading The Ramanujan Movie
What Do You Want?
I write for a lot of reasons. It’s a catharsis of sorts. I write because you read and you read possibly because I write. So, my dear readers, if there is a specific topic you’d like for me to write about, please let me know! I’m a tweet away!
Thank you! I am humbled that so many of you read and I hope you will continue to read! This year will be an exciting one.
-Manan